Gemstone IV News
The following is an overview of our release GOALS for 2011. Actual releases are always subject to change as the result of unexpected difficulties, unexpected progress in other areas, staff changes, or changing player priorities, however this is what we have on the list for the coming year.
For those items marked "Ready for Beta", we expect to open the test instance within the next week or two. A forum will be set up for remarks from beta testers during that process. Beta testers will include 2010 Simucon attendees, as previously announced.
EVENTS Droughtman's Challenge - Pay Quest Town Storylines (see Towns section for more info) Realm-wide Storyline (Prime - Ride of the Red Dreamer; Platinum - Rise of the Lornon) Spitfire - Free Spring Festival Small Early Summer Festival Ebon Gate Festival - Pay Fall Festival Wedding Upgrades and Enhancements (... continued) Monthly Sonic Alteration offerings Monthly Animal Companion Grooming offerings
TOWNS Icemule Trace --Major and minor storylines --Williwaw Hall Release --Continued updates to Cajela's Wares.
Kharam Dzu --New town area releases --Focus on smaller town interactions --Glaesen Star travel updates
River's Rest --New town area releases --Citizen Perks --General town improvements, including atmospheric messaging
Solhaven --Fishing --Refresh shop inventories --Day/Night shop variances --Updates to town atmospheric messaging --New town area releases
Ta'Illistim/Cysaegir --Town pins for Cysaegir --Major and minor storylines --New town area releases --Continued minor updates to shops, areas and town NPCs
Ta'Vaalor --Major and minor storylines --Bathhouse --Armaments museum --Several refreshes and minor additions to existing areas
Wehnimer's Landing --Bathhouse (completed) --Short term and minor storylines --Museum update --Ongoing NPC updates and interactions and town improvements --Frontier Days Festival
PREMIUM (including Mist Harbor) Monthly Premium Contests Mist Harbor Library Upgrades Mist Harbor Profession Guilds Mist Harbor Theatre Offerings Bliss Island Rentals Mist Harbor Deed Area Private Property Releases for Premium members Premium Summer Festival Revamp & Creation of Premium Halls in various towns (... continued)
PLATINUM Sweetheart Festival - free weekend festival Platinum Summer Trials (Including special Plat events!) Monthly Platinum Raffles Platinum Cart Offerings (new format) Platinum-only Storylines Platinum-specific area releases No Animal Ungroomed Campaign Sonic Alteration offerings
GAMEWIDE SYSTEMS Private Property System Maintenance Forging System Updates and Enhancements -- In Progress Crafting System Updates -- In Progress Player Mail System In Progress -- Ready for Beta New Raffle System In Progress -- Ready for Beta Thrown Weapon Combat Review -- In Progress Monks -- In Progress --Unarmed Combat System -- In Progress --Minor Mental Spell Circle -- Ready for Beta --New CMANs -- Ready for Beta Symbol of the Proselyte (340) -- In Progress Balefire (713) -- In Progress Curse (715) Revision -- In Progress Paladin Spell Circle Review -- In Discussion BCS Creature Conversions -- Ongoing
RACES Gnomish documentation Human documentation, including History of Hendor and Hall of Mages. Dwarven Spa release Sylvan Swap-Meet Sylvan documentation releases including Sylvan Marriage Sylvan restaurant Aelotoi documentation, including Aelotoi language and clothing Aelotoi verbs Halfling wagon tour Halfling documentation, including death rites
MHO Long term benefits cycles to continue Ongoing MHO support Ongoing support for structures
CHE CHE officer titles (completed) WHO HOUSE (completed) Cross-realm transportation House pins (completed) HOUSE EJECT (completed) HOUSE TENT (completed) INITIATE verb update (completed) Podium fixes (completed) Addition of new CHE Ongoing support for CHE
MENTORS Large Scale Mentor Event Spring Garden Gala Continued support for events throughout the year
WORDSMITHS Accepting new applications Ongoing support to continue producing documentation.
ALAE Ongoing support
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